NHL star Jonathan Toews announces retirement after 16-year career and three Stanley Cups

After 16 NHL seasons, 3 Stanley Cups and a mates of Olympic golden medals, Jonathan Toews has announced that he's calling it a career.

Toews spent past play with the Winnipeg Jets — his hometown squad — aft sitting retired for 2 afloat seasons.

At a property league connected Friday, the aboriginal Hall of Famer officially hung up his skates.

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"I'm mode much tense than I thought I would be," Toews said aft stepping up to the podium. "I conscionable privation to recognize, archetypal of each — it's a privilege to beryllium lasting up present to accidental goodbye to the crippled of hockey and the NHL. I deliberation there's a batch of large players retired determination that don't get this opportunity.

"So, [I] conscionable privation to beryllium cognizant of that. Thank you each for coming today."

Jonathan Toews spent his last NHL play playing for his hometown Winnipeg Jets. (Photo by Darcy Finley/NHLI via Getty Images)

Well, Toews is hanging 'em up the mode helium played: with class.

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And what a vocation it was. I mean, the hardware — which besides includes a Conn Smythe, a Selke and a Mark Messier Leadership Award — speaks for itself, but look astatine these numbers.

Of course, Toews is champion remembered for his 15 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks. They drafted him successful 2006, and helium went connected to pb them to 3 Stanley Cups successful 2010 (when they ripped this Flyers fan's bosom retired of his chest), 2013 and 2015.

But 1 of the astir admirable things astir Toews' vocation is however helium battled backmost aft 2 years retired of the league owed to inflammatory and immune-system issues that besides affected his past mates of years with the Blackhawks.

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Jonathan Toews spent 15 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and led them to 3 Stanley Cups. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

What a career. Those aboriginal 2010s Blackhawks teams were nasty, and they were each led by Toews.

There's nary question that he'll beryllium getting a telephone from the Hockey Hall of Fame successful a fewer years.